jon321971

A real Santa. Made possible by advances in technology that enabled the creation of a bot that travelled at the speed of light, dressed in red and white, and delivered presents to children all over the world. That’s the book I planned to write in the winter of 2023/4 for release in the autumn of 2024. It was not the book I ended up writing. Somehow the above idea got hijacked by events going on in my life away from screen and keyboard. I was getting divorced. I was losing my house. My...

There’s only room for a certain amount of books in a suitcase or hand luggage. And if your books (like mine) aren’t fortunate enough to be classed as ideal beach reads, and don’t find their way onto the shelves of a store in an airport bookseller, chances are as potential readers head off on holiday / vacation, your/our books aren’t going to sell or attract page reads like they do during the rest of the year. This will lead to the alliterative condition I’ve featured in the headline of this...

A man and boy who remain nameless throughout head south with all they have left in the world. Which isn’t much, as there’s not much left of the world. It’s never mentioned what’s happened to the planet, but it’s safe to assume that whatever it was turned out to be extremely unpleasant. So much so that by the time we join the world – a few years after the catastrophic events - there aren’t many people left and zero animals. Cannibalism is rife and bath-times rare in this starving, dirty,...